Yes, I restart it every time. Sometimes I stop, wait, and then start it just to be sure. To make a long story short, I had other problems and someone helped me with them and suddenly it works!! Go figure. It might have been a stack of problems affecting other parms that made it not work but I am back up again. Thanks for the response. Mike "Frank M. Kromann" <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:10975197695840000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Did you remember to restart Apache after making changes to php.ini ? This > is not needed if you are using the CGI sapi. > > - Frank > > > Environment > > ------------- > > WinXP Pro SP1 > > PHP 4.3.9 > > Apache 2.0.52 > > > > I am trying to set the session.save_path in php.ini and I cannot get it > to > > work. I have tried > > > > session.save_path = "X:/ApacheGroup/Apache2/html/SessionSave" > > session.save_path = "/ApacheGroup/Apache2/html/SessionSave" > > session.save_path = 2;/SessionSave > > session.save_path = 2;SessionSave > > > > and other patterns. I'm putting the number in front as that is > explained in > > the ini file as the number of nested directories it will go. I don't > need > > that but thought that might get it to work. But nothing works. It is > > defaulting to /. It is writeable. > > > > Where am I going wrong????? I am also going to include the rest of > the > > [Session] area in case another setting is causing this problem. > > > > Thanks for the help. > > > > Mike > > > > > > > > [Session] > > session.save_handler = files > > session.save_path = 2;X:/ApacheGroup/Apache2/html/SessionSave > > session.use_cookies = 1 > > ; session.use_only_cookies = 1 > > session.name = PHPSESSID > > session.auto_start = 0 > > session.cookie_lifetime = 0 > > session.cookie_path = / > > session.cookie_domain = "XXXXX" > > session.serialize_handler = php > > session.gc_probability = 1 > > session.gc_divisor = 100 > > session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440 > > session.bug_compat_42 = 1 > > session.bug_compat_warn = 1 > > session.referer_check = > > session.entropy_length = 0 > > session.entropy_file = > > session.cache_limiter = nocache > > session.cache_expire = 180 > > session.use_trans_sid = 0 > > session.hash_function = 0 > > session.hash_bits_per_character = 4 > > url_rewriter.tags = > "a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=,fieldset=" > > > > -- > > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php